Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour

Opposition parties called the reshuffle cosmetic, but El Beshir did have to replace Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour, whom he sacked in mid-April (AC Vol 59 No 9, Diplomats down, spies up)...

The sacking of Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour on 18 April after he complained in parliament that diplomats hadn't been paid for seven months points to the depth of the economic crisis facing the regime, as well as its internal divisions...

A senior official from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's office called Sudan's Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour, on 11 July, when Washington announced its decision, to assure him that the US engagement strategy would continue, Africa Confidential understands, and to explain the reasons for the deferral...

Characteristically, Ibrahim Ghandour offered a milder interpretation...

Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour was in Beijing and then South Korea this week...

Then it emerged that the President had flown to Saudi, taking only Taha, Presidency Minister Fadil Abdullah Fadil (former NCP chief in Darfur) and Ibrahim Ghandour...

On 7 March, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour steered his usual careful course, focussing on El Turabi's history and the PCP's return to the fold...

Sudan's Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour, was then summoned to Brussels, where the EU offered Khartoum more money to prevent people-smuggling...

This helps to explain this month's visit to Beijing by President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and to Moscow by Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour; the two were also looking for arms and money...

Cheery Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour has replaced the frosty Ali Ahmed Kurti as Foreign Minister with the task of placating foreign governments and international organisations...

In fact, Omer and Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour had been escorted to Waterkloof by ten police cars a few hours before the start of the High Court proceedings...

To the further embarrassment of Zuma's government, Ibrahim Ghandour thanked his hosts for ensuring the safe passage of Sudan's President out of the country...

The lead was taken by Ibrahim Ghandour, newly Foreign Minister, previously Presidential Assistant and holder of a string of senior posts in the ruling National Congress Party...

Instead, he and Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour met hostile media coverage as October's mass rape in Darfur again hit the headlines after a Human Rights Watch report (AC Vol 55 No 25, Rape row)...